本书的对象是希望了解决策与判断心理学的基础知识的非专业人士。它着重是实验结果而不是心理学理论，是出人意料的结论而不是猜想，是对研究的描述而不是数学公式。一句话，这本书是想要大家高兴而且思考，同时也是为了传播和普及心理学的知识。
本书共分6部分，前两个部分主要介绍决策与判断的基本要素，包括知觉、记忆、情境和提问方式。第三和第四部分主要介绍决策的经典模式，并与最近有关判断偏差的新模式做对比。第五部分探讨由团体做出的判断和关于团体的判断。第六部分讨论决策与判断的一些常见的陷阱。第一章都设计成能够单独成立的专题，所以读者可以自由地跳跃不同的章节或随意地安排阅读顺序。
本书一个与众不同的地方就是第1章之前的读者调查，这个调查的问题是根据以后章节中涉及的研究问题改编和复制而成的。

《经济发展理论》一书是约瑟夫·熊彼特早期成名之作。熊彼特在这本著作里首先提出的“创新理论”，当时曾轰动西方经济学界，并且一直享有盛名。此书最先以德文发表于1912年，修订再版于1926年，越数年又重印了德文第三版。 1934年，以德文修订本为依据的英译本，由美国哈佛大学出版社出版，被列为（哈佛经济丛书）第46卷。现在的中译本，据此英译本译出。
熊彼特的《经济发展理论》以 “对于利润、资本、信贷、利息和经济周期的考察”作为副标题，涉猎范围可谓极其广泛。但是书中最具特色和最引人注目的，还是他所提出的“创新理论”。
全书共分为六章。
第一、第二两章最为重要，从静止状态的“循环流转”到经济发展的根本现象，特别是第二章　，对经济发展，包括从“企业家”的特点和功能、 “生产要素的新组合”、“创新”的涵义和作用，直到资本主义的产生，熊彼特都作了开创性的精辟的论述，既是理论上的探讨，也是历史发展过程的概述。
第三、 四、五各章则进一步分别阐述了信贷与资本，企业家利润，以及资本的利息。我们可以概括地说，“创新理论”就是熊彼特“经济发展理论”的核心。

How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy—one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom. The result is an accessible text that has sold well over half a million copies in English, has been translated into eighteen languages, and shows every sign of becoming more and more influential as time goes on.

Jeffrey Sachs draws on his remarkable 25 years' experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring vision of the keys to economic success in the world today. Marrying vivid storytelling with acute analysis, he sets the stage by drawing a conceptual map of the world economy and explains why, over the past 200 years, wealth and poverty have diverged and evolved across the planet, and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the trap of poverty. Sachs tells the remarkable stories of his own work in Bolivia, Poland, Russia, India, China and Africa to bring readers with him to an understanding of the different problems countries face. In the end, readers will be left not with an understanding of how daunting the world's problems are, but how solvable they are and why making the effort is both our moral duty and in our own interests.

奥地利学派经济学方法论的代表作。

为什么咖啡店都设在街道一角？为什么同一家超市，有人觉得哗众取宠有人觉得物超所值？为什么老买不到一处位置好价钱便宜的好房子？交通拥堵的背后有什么经济原因？……为什么富裕的国家与贫穷的国家差距如此之大？
作为经济学家版的“万变之宗”，这部迷人的著作为你一一解惑。本书就是要帮助你像一位经济学家那样看世界，它不会告诉你有关汇率或商业周期的专业问题，但会帮你解开日常生活之谜。书中既会关注大问题，如星巴克为什么会赚个盆满钵满，也会关注小问题，如你怎样在超市里淘到价廉物美的货品。
本书从头到尾都是一种侦探式的工作，但会教给你如何运用经济学家的各种调查工具，理解和解决日常生活中的问题。作者指出：日常生活不过是谈判中的复杂博弈，体力的角逐和智力的较量。希望看完本书之后，你能成为一位更精明的消费者，能够看清楚种种现实背后的真相。

In the last years of World War II, Friedrich Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom. He warned the allies that policy proposals which were being canvassed for the post-war world ran the risk of destroying the very freedom for which they were fighting. On the basis of 'as in war, so in peace', economists and others were arguing that the government should plan all economic activity. Such planning, Hayek argued, would be incompatible with liberty, and had been at the very heart of the movements that had established both communism and Nazism.
On its publication in 1944, the book caused a sensation. Neither its British nor its American publisher could keep up with demand, owing to wartime paper rationing. Then, in 1945, Reader's Digest published The Road to Serfdom as the condensed book in its April edition. For the first and still the only time, the condensed book was placed at the front of the magazine instead of the back. Hayek found himself a celebrity, addressing a mass market.
The condensed edition was republished for the first time by the IEA in 1999 and has been reissued to meet the continuing demand for its enduringly relevant and accessible message.

With over one million copies sold, The Undercover Economist has been hailed worldwide as a fantastic guide to the fundamental principles of economics. An economist's version of The Way Things Work , this engaging volume is part Economics 101 and part exposé of the economic principles lurking behind daily events, explaining everything from traffic jams to high coffee prices.

New to this edition : This revised edition, newly updated to consider the banking crisis and economic turbulence of the last four years, is essential for anyone who has wondered why the gap between rich and poor nations is so great, or why they can't seem to find a decent second-hand car, or how to outwit Starbucks. Senior columnist for the Financial Times Tim Harford brings his experience and insight as he ranges from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States to reveal how supermarkets, airlines, and coffee chains--to name just a few--are vacuuming money from our wallets. Harford punctures the myths surrounding some of today's biggest controversies, including the high cost of health-care; he reveals why certain environmental laws can put a smile on a landlord's face; and he explains why some industries can have high profits for innocent reasons, while in other industries something sinister is going on.

Covering an array of economic concepts including scarce resources, market power, efficiency, price gouging, market failure, inside information, and game theory, Harford sheds light on how these forces shape our day-to-day lives, often without our knowing it. Showing us the world through the eyes of an economist, Tim Harford reveals that everyday events are intricate games of negotiations, contests of strength, and battles of wits. Written with a light touch and sly wit, The Undercover Economist turns "the dismal science" into a true delight.

"Stimulating, provocative, often infuriating, but well worth reading."--Peter Newman, "Economica"
"His critical blast blows like a north wind against the more pretentious erections of modern economics. It is however a healthy and invigorating blast, without malice and with a sincere regard for scientific objectivity."--K.E. Boulding, "Political Science Quarterly"
"Certainly one of the most engrossing volumes that has appeared recently in economic theory."--William J. Baumol, "Review of Economics and Statistics"

In a complex and uncertain world, humans and animals make decisions under the constraints of limited knowledge, resources, and time. Yet models of rational decision making in economics, cognitive science, biology, and other fields largely ignore these real constraints and instead assume agents with perfect information and unlimited time. About forty years ago, Herbert Simon challenged this view with his notion of "bounded rationality." Today, bounded rationality has become a fashionable term used for disparate views of reasoning. This book promotes bounded rationality as the key to understanding how real people make decisions. Using the concept of an "adaptive toolbox," a repertoire of fast and frugal rules for decision making under uncertainty, it attempts to impose more order and coherence on the idea of bounded rationality. The contributors view bounded rationality neither as optimization under constraints nor as the study of people's reasoning fallacies. The strategies in the adaptive toolbox dispense with optimization and, for the most part, with calculations of probabilities and utilities. The book extends the concept of bounded rationality from cognitive tools to emotions; it analyzes social norms, imitation, and other cultural tools as rational strategies; and it shows how smart heuristics can exploit the structure of environments.

This is a survey of bounded rationality, an area of theoretical macroeconomics which is receiving increased attention. The book is written by a leading macroeconomist who outlines the issues involved, describes some of the analytic tools that are being used, and shows how they can be applied in a range of models. It points to further potential positive developments of the theory as well as some of its limitations.

This book is an expanded and revised edition of the author's critically acclaimed volume Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. In twenty-six succinct chapters, Jon Elster provides an account of the nature of explanation in the social sciences. He offers an overview of key explanatory mechanisms in the social sciences, relying on hundreds of examples and drawing on a large variety of sources-psychology, behavioral economics, biology, political science, historical writings, philosophy and fiction. Written in accessible and jargon-free language, Elster aims at accuracy and clarity while eschewing formal models.

This book is intended as an introductory survey of the philosophy of the social sciences. It is essentially a work of exposition that offers a tool box of mechanisms--nuts and bolts, cogs and wheels--that can be used to explain complex social phenomena. Within a brief compass, Jon Elster covers a vast range of topics. His point of departure is the conflict we all face between our desires and our opportunities. How can rational choice theory help us understand our motivation and behavior? More significantly, what happens when the theory breaks down but we still cleave to a belief in the power of the rational? Elster describes the fascinating range of forms of irrationality--wishful thinking, the phenomenon of sour grapes, discounting the future in non-cooperative behavior. He shows how these issues bear directly on our lives in such concrete situations as wage bargaining, economic cartels, political strikes, voting in elections, and court decisions involving child custody.

《社会的麦当劳化》由上海译文出版社出版。

Stressing verbal logic rather than mathematics, Israel M. Kirzner provides at once a thorough critique of contemporary price theory, an essay on the theory of entrepreneurship, and an essay on the theory of competition. "Competition and Entrepreneurship" offers a new appraisal of quality competition, of selling effort, and of the fundamental weaknesses of contemporary welfare economics.
Kirzner's book establishes a theory of the market and the price system which differs from orthodox price theory. He sees orthodox price theory as explaining the configuration of prices and quantities that satisfied the conditions for equilibrium. Mr. Kirzner argues that "it is "more" useful to look to price theory to help understand how the decisions of individual participants in the market interact to generate the market forces which compel changes in prices, outputs, and methods of production and in the allocation of resources."
Although "Competition and Entrepreneurship" is primarily concerned with the operation of the market economy, Kirzner's insights can be applied to crucial aspects of centrally planned economic systems as well. In the analysis of these processes, Kirzner clearly shows that the rediscovery of the entrepreneur must emerge as a step of major importance.